Gasoline Definition
găsə-lēn, găsə-lēn
noun
A volatile, highly flammable, colorless liquid mixture of hydrocarbons produced by the fractional distillation of petroleum and used chiefly as a fuel in internal-combustion engines.
Webster's New World
(countable) A certain kind of gasoline.
The quality of automobile gasolines varies considerably from one country and producer to another.
The X refinery produces a wide range of gasolines.
Wiktionary
Synonyms:
- juice
- diesel fuel
- combustible material
- gas
- motor fuel
- petrol (British)
- propellant
- petrol
- gasolene
adjective
Made from or using gasoline.
Wiktionary
Other Word Forms of Gasoline
Noun
Singular:
gasoline
Plural:
gasolinesOrigin of Gasoline
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From Cazeline (possibly influenced by Gazeline, the name of an Irish copy), a brand of petroleum-derived lighting oil, from the surname of the man who first marketed it in 1862, John Cassell, and the suffix –eline, from Greek ἔλαιον (elaion, “oil, olive oil”), from ἐλαία (elaía, “olive”).
From Wiktionary
gas –ol(e) –ine
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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